My wife was in an accident in our RX-8 the day before Thanksgiving. I am trying to find a body shop to have the car taken to by Monday or Tuesday of next week. Here is the link to the thread that has pictures of the car:
https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-discussion-3/my-tit-gray-accident-warning-420kb-pics-77195/

I did a search in this forum and found these places:

Performance Auto Body in Manassas on Euclid St.
Precision Collision 7901 Kincannon Place Lorton, VA
Brown's Mazda Fairfax or Alexandria
Mr. Spoiler, Inc. Industry Drive Manassas
Peter Farrell Supercars in Manassas (do they do body work?)

Can someone recommend anyone esle or give any of the above a recommendation? I live in Culpeper and the car is in Warrenton, VA. Ideally I don't want to have to take the car over an hour away. I would like to have the car fixed by someone who will make it as good or better than new. Thanks for any suggestions and/or tips.

 

I took my car to browns in alexandria and Steve hooked it up and fast turn around. The job looked perfect and was done before he said it would be I left with smiles.

 

oh yeah PF Supercars does not do body work. (I used to work there)

 

if i was you i would rather juss get body kit and new carbon hood if i had a wreck like that
instead of juss getting oem parts

 

That sounds great except... can one really do that? There is a lien on the car with Mazda Credit, so the checks will be written to me and Mazda... not sure how that one works. Using non-OEM parts would probably eliminate Brown's Mazda. Any advice on this?

Given the holidays I have not been able to get ahold of any body shops, but I did leave a message with each. I imagine Monday I should be fielding a bunch of calls. I might get in touch with the insurance adjuster to ask about using non-OEM parts to use in the repair.

 

i'd stick with OEM parts except genuine Mazdaspeed parts... most aftermarket parts are still inferior to OE parts in terms of fitment and build quality... mazdaspeed front bumper??

 

When my wife wrecked my 8 I had the dealer install the mazdaspeed parts except for the front. I was able to get the ms rear through the dealer without going into my pockets.

 

Avoid CarCraft Collision in Springfield. Not only have I had a terrible experience with them my fiancee did too. After leaving a damaged Zx2 there for the longest time and having them repaint the bumper at least 4 times, they still got the color wrong. This was a minor incident, lord knows what would happen to some serious damage.

 

I think I have settled on Craftsman Autobody on Wellington Dr. in Gainesville. It is a relatively new building, but they have a few others in the area. I have my fingers crossed... but I think they are a good place from some recommendations I have had for them. They have a state of the art shop too, very impressed with their work I saw too. I have also informed them that I am not planning on being a jerk.. but I want the car as close to it was before the accident, no questions asked. None of this... "the color is pretty close" kind of stuff. I digress...

I'm probably going to go all OEM... was thinking about maybe a carbon fiber hood painted to match the factory color... until I learned the OEM and CF weigh about the same. So... why bother? Still waiting for the appraisal company to come forth with my report... it's be five days since they looked at the car. Sheesh!

 

I'm taking my car to a body shop in tysons to have a dent/scratch fixed. I took it to rosenthal body shop in tysons they said between 1200-1500. The place I'm going works on all cars and they quoted me $850. If you want i'll get you the name of the place tommorow

 

I have always gotten excellent results from Precision Collision for my '85 RX-7 and '04 RX-8. But they are one of the busiest body shops in NoVA. You will be lucky if they accept the car this week.